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Our thoughts aud purposes are now consecrated 
to the maintenance of the liberty of the world 
and of the union of its people in a single comrade- 
ship of liberty and of right. For this our men 
came to the field of Battle with high spirit and 
pure heart of crusaders, — and conscientiously of- 
fered their lives. 

We must never forget the duty that their sac- 
rifice has laid upon us of fulfilling their hopes and 
their purposes to the utmost. 

— WOODROW WILSON. 

Though out of the darkness they called the aid 

Of the evil forces of Sin, 
We uttered our slogan unafraid — 

They shall not win, they shall not win. 

We knew we were right, and knew they were 
wrong. 

So to God above and within 
We made our vow and we sang our song. 

They shall not win, they shall not win. 

It has risen over the shriek of shell, 

And over the cannons' din; 
Our slogan did s-catter the hosts of hell, 

They did not \Vin, they did not win. 

—ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. 
(3) 



At last the great day has come, the greatesit day 
of history, when Barbarism is vanquished and in- 
ternational law and justice will again rule. 

— BERTHOLD SINGER. 

The world war beginning 1914, was fought for 
the right of Small Nations to Self-government and 
for the right of every country to the free use of 
the high sieas. 

More than four million American men were un- 
der arms when the conflict ended. Of these, more 
than two million were upon the fields of France 
and Italy. 

Never before in the history of the world were 
so many races and people mingled in a military 
effort as those that came together under the comj- 
mand of Marshall Foch. 

JANUARY 5, 1918. 

President Wilson delivers speech to Congress" 
suggesting ''fourteen points" necess'ary to peace. 

JANUARY 10, 1920. 

Versailles peace treaty formally put into effect 
between Germany and allied and associated na- 
tions with the exception of the United States. 

The ceremony took place in the Clock Hall of 
the foreign office. 

(4) 



Representatives of the allied nations shook 
hands for the first time since the end of Jnly, 
1914. 

As American troops went into battle, they shout- 
ed: ''Remember the Lusitania! ! ! " 
A spurring battle-cry. 

' ' Germany lost the war because men stone-blind 
to human nature were at the head of her perfect 
machine of war," s^ays Philip Gibbs. 

The extraordinary insults and aggressions of the 
Imperial German government forced America into 
the World War. 

Germany imprudently denied America the use 
of the high seas and repeatedly executed their 
threat, that they would sent to their death any 
of our people who ventured to approach the coast 
of Europe. 

Captain Donald C. Thompson, the famous) camera 
correspondent of Leslie's' Weekly, who filmed the 
German curse in Russia, was arrested fourteen 
times while snapping photographs' on the battle- 
fields of Europe. He took 125,000' feet of motion 
picture and made 15,000 still photographs. 



''You will never reign" — were the fateful words 
of the clairvoyant Mme Emma to the Crown 
Prince of Germany and truly, the Hohenzollern 
throne has been shaky ever since. 

The five beats of the century are: 

1. President Wilson 's terms of negotiation. 

2. That Germany asked armistice and terms of 
peace. 

3. That Germany accepted terms and that the 
Kaiser abdicated. 

4. That the world war was ended. 

5. Germany's acceptance of the peace treaty. 

JANUARY 18, 1919. 

Peace conference met in Washington. 

A selfish country could not save its'elf. 
America won because she did not count the cost. 
It was a war in self defense and humanity. 

-^SECRETAEY LANE. 

Germany made the attack upon us, on our ships, 
our lives, our rights, and our future things, which 
outraged man's common sense of fair play and 
humanity 

All rules were thrown away, man came down to 
the primitive brute. The invasion of Belgium led 



to the invasion of the United States/ by slow, 
steady, logical steps. • 

It was a war to save America, to preserve self- 
respect, to justify our right to live as we have 
lived. 

It is' more precious that ximerica should live 
than that we Americans should live. 

Why we fought? — 

"Because of Belgium — invaded, outraged, en- 
slaved, impoverished Belgium, 

"Because of France — invaded, desecrated France, 
a million of whose heroic sons have died to save 
the land of LaFayette," 

"Becaus'e of England — from whom came the 
'aws, traditions, standards of life and inherant 
love of liberty, which we call Anglo-Saxon civil- 
ization," 

"Because of Eussia — New Eussia; she needs 
education, know a Was'hington, Jefferson and Lin- 
coln. Because of other people with their rising 
hope, that the world may be freed from military 
tyranny by the soldier, ' ' 

— SECEETAEY LANE. 

(7) 



o^ANUARY 25, 1918. 

United States troops heavily engaged on western 
front. 

We saw ship after s^hip sent to the bottom — 
ships of mercy sent for the Belgium starving. 
Ships carrying the Eed Cross and laden with 
wounded soldiers of all nations', ships flying the 
Stars and Stripes manned by American seamen, 
murdered against the law without warning. 

We were fighting Germany because she violated 
our confidence. German spies paid by the German 
Government filled our cities. We s'aw that she 
was holding us off with fair promise until she had 
built her huge fleet of submarines. For before 
spring 1918 came, she blew her promise into the 
air just as> at the beginning toward Belgium — 
she had torn up that "scrap of paper." 

America spoke for the world in fighting Ger- 
many. 

JANUARY 28, 1918. 

Eussia and Roumania sever diplomatic relations, 

JANUARY 31, 1918. 

Germany announces' unrestricted submarine war- 
fare. 



German feudalism made war upon mankind with 
poison gas that sneak through the seas to slyly 
murder men and women while they sleep with 
a perfect sys'tem of terrorization. 

We fought with the world for an honest world, 
in which nations keep their word, for a world in 
which men think of the ways in which they can con- 
quer common cruelties of nature instead of invent- 
ing more horrible cruelties to inflict upon the spirit 
and body of man, for a world in which the man is 
held more precious than the machine system of the 
state. 

The total cost of the European war is fixed at 
$179,000,000,000. Total expenditures of the Allies 
and the United States were fixed at $119,581,000,- 
000, exclusive of loans among themselves which 
totaled $18,375,000,000. The Allies owe the United 
States 100,000 millions. 

If God were to appear suddenly and say, * * Stop. 
Tell me what this causeless war ig) all about" — 
there would be a riotous clamor of vociferations, 
but when compelled to state calmly what they were 
fighting over, no two of them could agree upon an 
issue that was not ridiculous. 

—DR. FRANK CRANE. 

(9) 



FEBRUARY 2, 1918. 

United States troops take over their first sec- 
tor, near Toul. 



FEBRUARY 3, 1917. 

President Wilson reviews snibmarine controversy 
before Congress; United States severs diplomatic 
relations with Germany; American Steamer Housa- 
tonic siunk without warning; Spain prepares to fol- 
low move of United States. 

If we must fight, let us fight our own war, for 
our own rights, with our own men, behind our own 
president and under our own flag and whether in 
peace or in war — God save the Eepublic! 

-HEAEST. 



FEBRUARY 5, 1917. 

Ambassador Gerard ordered to ask for hisi pass- 
ports in Berlin. The actual presentation of Count 
von Bernstorff's passports in Was'hington followed. 



FEBRUARY 6, 1918. 

United States troopship, Tuscania sunk by Ger- 
man submarine, los't one hundred and one lives. 



All our waste of wealth, all our sacrifices of lives, 
all our exhaustion of resources, all our patient suf- 
fering, will be of no avail in the averting of war, 

(U)) 



unless) we genuinely democratize Teutonic powers 
and Entente Allies and the United States of 
America. 

— HEAEST. 



With contempt of the civilized world Germany- 
had already lost in 1917 almost all her colonies in 
Southern Africa. Practically all her shipping not 
bottled up in Bremen and Hamburg. Of the flow- 
ers of her youth over two million — nearly twenty 
million dollars to be added to her national debt^ 

Did it pay for her gains and the voice crying, 
''May God help further?" 



American women were s'erving in many ways in 
France — as nurses of the military medical service, 
as active workers for the Red Cross, for the Army 
and Navy, Y. W. C. A. They have served the can- 
teens and managed the hutsj and the *'Y" was es- 
tablished all over France. 

Also — The National War Work Council of the 
U. S. Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. decided that 
there was a place for the women in the work that 
the organization was doing in the training camps 
of America. 



FEBRUARY 11, 1918. 

President Wilson, in addressing Congress, gives 
four additional peace principles, including self de- 

(11) 



termination of nations. Russian Bolsheviki de- 
claresi war with Germany over, but refuses to sign 
peace treaty. 

It was* Sergeant Straight who killed a German 
machine gunner and found a bayonet with three 
notches on the handle of the German's belt — ''Gott 
mit uns!" 



FEBRUARY 13, 1918. 

Bola Pasha sentenced to death in France for 
treason. 



FEBRUARY 14, 1917. 

Count von Bernstorff sails for Germany. 

When aboard the ''U. S. A. George Wasihing- 
ton" in July, 1919, performing his dangerous du- 
ties at sea, when addressing the crew, President 
Wilson said: It was the Navy which put the army 
in the fighting field by s'afely transporting two 
million men across the Atlantic and it is the Xavy 
now engaged, of promptly and safely returning the 
great host back home again. The President de- 
scribed his youthful wish to become a sailor if he 
had not been dissuaded from it by his parents. 



Among the many messages of congratulations 
received by wireless on America 's participation in 
the war, and the peace treaty signing, General 

(12) 



Pilsudski's, Polish chief of staff, read: "It wa? 
your voice, Mr. President, which first lifted itself 
to proclaim the rights of our nation." 



FEBRUARY 18, 1915. 

German blockade of English and French coasts 
put into effect. 



Former United States Senator Jamesi Hamilton 
Lewis from Illinois, declined a decoration confer- 
red upon him by King Albert of Belgium. Mr. 
Lewis' service to Belgium was not military but of 
official character and such office was prohibited by 
law, from accepting a decoration from any foreign 
power. 



Thousands of mothers and fathers of our heroic 
American soldiers and sailors who died for their 
country in England, France, Belgium and Ger- 
many may receive pictures of graves through the 
Knights of Columbus workers. 



FEBRUARY 21, 1914. 

American steamer EVELYN sunk by mine in the 
North Sea. 



FEBRUARY 22, 1916. 

Grown Prince's army begins attack on Verdun. 

(13) 



'^22 Americans capture firyt Germau piisouer 
1918." ' 



The gallery of mirrors in the Palace of Ver- 
sailles was chosen for the signing of the peace 
treaty on June 28, 1919. It is surrounded by three 
hundred and six mirrors. 



FEBRUARY 24, 1917. 

The arrival of American s'hips in Bordeaux is 
awaited with extraordinary interest. 



FEBRUARY 25, 1917. 

Submarine sinks liner LAOONIA without warn- 
inging, many lost including two Americans. 

FEBRUARY 25, 1918. 

President Wilson's peace principles agreed with 
by Chancellor von Hertling, at Eeichstag in Ber- 
lin. 



FEBRUARY 26, 1917. 

President Wilson asks congress for authority 
to arm American merchant ships. 



FEBRUARY 28, 1917. 

Secretary Lansing makes public Zimmerman's 
note to Mexico, proposing Mexico-Japanese- 
German alliance. 

(14) 



Submarine campaign of Germans results in the 
sinking of 134 vessels during February. 

In all lives, political, national, social, economic, 
we shall have to rebuild our world, so badly shaken 
in its foundations. Let us work now with all our 
will to make peace and civilization safe for the 
world. 



Americans" repulse German attack on Toul sector. 



MARCH 1, 1918. 

According to German newspapers, the German 
government may try Kaiser for stealing 15 auto- 
mobiles and $150,000' from German treasury before 
escaping into Holland. 



MARCH 3, 1918. 

Treaty of peace with Germans signed by BoJ 
shevik government of Russia at Brest-Litovek. 



General Erich Ludendorff, chief of the German 
staff during the great war advised the Kaiser to 
seek peace in the spring of 1918 while they were 
victorious, but the Kaiser refused to listen to ad- 
vice. 



MARCH 4, 1918. 

Germany and Roumania sign armistice on Ger- 

(15) 



man term?. 



MARCH 4, 1919. 

President Wilson gave address on league of na- 
tions in New York. 



The Germans after being decisively beaten in 
three great battles realized that the Yanks' were 
destroying the morals of the Germans'. So they 
put 40 divisions against sectors held by our boys; 
and three American divisions destroyed thirteen 
German divisions. 



Allied Europe wondered at the splendid educa- 
tion of our men. Our boys obeis'sance to Govern- 
m.ental authority was a revelation. It was the 
greatest tribute to the efficiency of a free govern- 
ment ever demonstrated to the world. 



Everybody gives America the credit of having 
the lion share of winning the war; everybody from 
munition workers to the foremost statesman. The 
French and Englis'h people hope that many of the 
Americans will marry English and French girls. 



MARCH 8, 1916. 

Germany declares war on Portugal. 

(16) 



MARCH 8, 1917. 

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of th2 
Zeppelin airship, dies. 



MARCH 9, 1917. 

President Wilson calls extra session of Congress 
for April 16. 



Huge bills drawn against Germany for physical 
war destruction, thefts and unpaid for requisitions. 
Belgium claims about $10,000,000,000. 



MARCH 10, 1915. 

Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. 



MARCH 11, 1917. 

British under General Maude capture Bagdad; 
revolution starts in Petrograd. 



In April 1919 Belgians almost fought to buy 
American shoe? at $10 or $12 a pair. 



Two poorly dressed women emerged from one of 
Brussels' stores. One was heard to say: **Bless'ed 
be the Americans; I have saved fifty francs." 



MARCH 14, 1917. 

C hina breaks- with Germany. 

07) 



MARCH 14, 1918. 

All Eussian Congress of Soviets ratifies Peace 
Treaty at Moscow. 



MARCH 15, 1917. 

Czar Nicholas of Eiissia abdicates. 



MARCH 15, 1918. 

Yankg make first permanent advance of the war, 
occupying a mile of enemy trenches in Lorraine. 



MARCH 16, 1918. 

The United States advanced a credit of $11,200, 
000 to Belgium. 



MARCH 17, 1917. 

French and British capture Bapaume. 



MARCH 17, 1918. 

Since the declaration of war the total loans to 
the allies from the United States amount to $4,- 
960,600,000. 



MARCH 18, 1917. 

New French ministry formed by Alexander 
Ribot. 

American ships ''City of Memphis — Illinois and 
Vigilancia" torpedoed. 

(18) 



MARCH 19, 1917. 

Three unarmed U. S. s'hips sunk by German U 
boats. Some American lives lost. President Wil- 
son intends to call Congress at once to act on 
U boats. 



MARCH 20, 1917. 

United States certain to be involved in war. 
President Wilson orders all Holland ships in 
American ports taken over. 



MARCH 21, 1917. 

American oil steamer Healdton torpedoed with- 
out warning, 21 men lost. Eussian forces crosis 
Persian border into Turkish territory. Germans 
start on fifty mile front. Uncle Sam seized 600,- 
000 tons of Dutch shipping. 



MARCH 22, 1918. 

United States recognizes rew government of 
Eussiia. 

Germans take 16,000 British prisoners and 200 
guns. Victorious Teutons make first move for 
peace. 



MARCH 23, 1918. 

Germans' drive gains nine miles. 



MARCH 24, 1916. 

(19) 



''Mystery gun" shells Paris. Steamer Sussex 
torpedoed and sunk. 



MARCH 24, 1918. 

Germans reach the Somme, gaining fifteen miles. 
American engineers rushed to aid Britis'h. Paris 
makes official announcement that big calibre shells 
are falling every fifteen minutes. 

Bombardment remains a mys-tery. 



MARCH 25, 1918. 

Germans take Bapaume. 



]V[ARCH 26, 1918. 

American engineers thrown into fight with Brit- 
ish against Germans in latter 's drive to Channel 
ports. Enemy's advance halted. 



MARCH 27, 1917. 

General Murray's British expedition into the 
Holy Land defeats Turkish army near Gaza. 



MARCH 27, 1918. 

Germans take Albert. 



MARCH 28, 1918. 

British counter attack and gain: French take 
three towns; Germans advance toward Amiens. 

(20) 



MARCH 29, 1918. 

* ' Mystery gun ' ' kills seventy-five church goers 
in Paris on Good Friday. 

General Pershing offers General Foch full u^'e 
of all American forces. 

General Foch chosen Commander in Chief of all 
allied forces. 



MARCH 31, 1918. 

Eush of American troops to France. Rage be- 
tween them and Hindenburg whose hope in victory 
lies in crushing Allies before the Americans' ar- 
rive. 

Germany begins! to realize America's activity 
abroad, sending men and billions to help the cause 
of justice and humanity in France, Belgium, Eng- 
land and Italy. 

In one monthgi time, nearly one-fourth of the 
German artillery equipment was captured by Brit- 
ish, French and Americans, from July 18th to Oct, 
18th, 1918. 

APRIL 1, 1917. 

Americans' armed ship ''Aztec" sunk in sub- 
marine zone. 

APRIL 1, 1918. 

Americans move in force to battle front m 

(21) 



Picardy. 

APRIL 2, 1917. 

President Wilson asks» congress to declare that 
acts of Germany constitute a state of war. 



APRIL 3, 1917. 

Whereas the Imperial German Government has 
committed and repeated^ acts of war against the 
government and the people of the United States, 
a joint res'olution from Washington was reported 
that a state of War existed between the Imperial 
GermaSi Government and the government and the 
people of the United States. Plan to enlist 1,200 
is approved. 

APRIL 4, 1917. 

United States Senate adopts resolutions declar- 
ing sitate of war exists with Germany. Six voting 
against it. President Wilson's address to Congress 
proved a shock to Germany. Immediately confer- 
ence at Berlin Headquartersi was held. Way is 
found to check U boats. 



APRIL 4, 1918. 

Germans start second phase of their spring 
drive on the Somme. 

(22) 



APRIL 5, 1917. 

American people are willing to sustain govern- 
ment in most consrpieuous effort to acquire a mighty 
air fleet. Nothing in the annals of the battle will 
compare with iight of aeroplanes, thousands of feet 
above the earth. 

APRIL 6, 1917. 

House passed war resolution and President Wil- 
son signs joint resolution of congressi. 

United States formally plunged into the world 
war against Germany. German ships sieized as the 
first U. S. war act. 



APRIL 6, 1918. 

Washington announced double draft call for 1,- 
600,000 men reducing training period and provid- 
ing for temporary brigading of Americans with 
Allies. 



APRIL 6, 1918. 

Eve of first anniversary. President Wilson in 
speech at Baltimore, declares, ''Force! Force!" to 
the utmost, "must be used for victory." 

APRIL 6, 1919. 

American engineers help on Siberian railroad. 



(23) 



APRIL 7, 1917. 

Cuba and Panama at war with Germany. 

Mail service between the United States" and 
Germany has been formally suspended. Secretary 
Lansing has sent an appeal to Eussia to ytand firm 
against German intrigue. 

Wealth and navy make U. S. a powerful enemy. 

APRIL 8, 1917. 

Austria declares severance of diplomatic relation:-; 
with the United States-. Bolivia breaks with 

Germany. 

APRIL 9, 1917. 

United States seizes fourteen interned Austrian 
ships. 

Great war program begun by Congress, providing 
for nationalization of the State militia. 

Volunteer army of 500,000 men. 

Increasing strength of navy and marine corps. 

Authorization of a bond issue to extend credit 
to the Entente and our own military establishment. 

Perfection of new system of taxation. 

Espionage sys-tem to end German and American 
activity, etc. 

APRIL 10, 1917. 

Germans take 10,000 British prisoners in Flan- 
ders. As the Germans advanced in Picardi bat- 

(24) 



tie they captured French girls'. Recently hosts of 
these girls and women broken in health were re- 
turned to France through Switzerland. 

APRIL 12, 1918. 

American marines land in Siberia. 

APRIL 12, 1917. 

American Naval units enter active service. 

APRIL 14, 1917. 

House passes $7,000,000,000 war revenue bili 
without dis'senting vote. Italy had 1,200,000 mo- 
bilized men under arms. 

Great care is taken with American cemeteries in 
France. 

U. S. soldiers killed on French battle fields. 
Every grave of more than 50,000 was decorated 
on Memorial Day, May 30, 1919, with flowers and 
marked with a small American flag. 

APRIL 16, 1918. 

Bolo Pas'ha executed for treason, in Paris. 
Germans capture Messines Ridge near Ypres. 

APRIL 18, 1916. 

President Wilson sends note to Germany. 

Uncle Sam permitted the American s'oldiers tc 

(25) 



bring home their brides at the expense of the gov- 
ernment. One of our brave soldiers had the nerve 
to bring his wife, baby, sister-in-law, mother-in- 
law, and father-in-law, saying he wanted them to 
return to America, with him. 

''You win," said the des'k officer at the troop 
movement office. 

''You must have been the greatest soldier of 
them all." 

APRIL 19, 1916. 

President Wilson speaks to congressi explaining' 
diplomatic situation. 

APRIL 20, 1917. 

Turkey severs diplomatic relations with United 
States'. 

APRIL 21, 1918. 

Americans repulse fierce German attack at 
Seiche prey. 

APRIL 23, 1918. 

British and French navies ' ' bottle up ' ' German 
submarine base at Zeebrugge, Belgium. 



APRIL 24, 1919. 

Revised casualty totals announced by U. S. War 
Department place the total of dead in the army and 

(26) 



marine corpsj at 75,344. 



APRIL 25, 1915. 

Allies stop German drive on Ypres line in Bel- 
gium. 



APRIL 25, 1916. 

Germany is trying to avoid a break with 
America. Count von Bernstorff indicates that there 
is a chance for adjustment of the subway marine 
controversy. 



APRIL 26, 1917. 

Joffre and other members of French mission 
liailed in Washington. Battle on Arras Front after 
three days of struggle described as the bloodiesit of 
the World's War. 



APRIL 26, 1918. 

Marines appear on Western battle front for firsr 
time. 

Germans capture Mount Kemmel, taking 6,500 
prisjoners. 



Every grave of every American soldier in France 
was covered with flowers and marked with a small 
American flag on Memorial Day, in 1919. 



APRIL 27, 1918. 

(27) 



Slowly but surely British are eating into Ger- 
man lines under General Haig. 

Fifteen German airplanes dropped by British. 



APRIL 28, 1917. 

Both hous'es of Congress pass selective service 
act for raising of army of 500,000. 

GuatenHala severs diplomatic relations with 
Germany. 

APRIL 29, 1917. 

The United States goes under conscription union 
of Britain, France and United States at Mount 
Vernon. Will symbolize consjumation of joint cru- 
sade against German autocracy. 



MAY 1, 1918. 

Secretary Baker asks congress for an unlimited 
army. 



MAY 2, 1917. 

Firs't liberty war loan of $2,000,000,000 announc- 
ed. 



MAY 2, 1919. 

From Was'hington is announced that no German 
shipping now in possession of the United States 
is to be relinquished. 

(28) 



MAY 3, 1919. 

A panorama of victory, led by Porshinj;- 's own 
hand swept down in New York from 110th St., to 
Washington Square before the eyes of thousands. 
A captive balloon was carried along. 



MAY 4, 1916. 

Germany makes promise to change methods of 
submarine warfare. 



MAY 5, 1918. 

Austria starts drive on Italy. 

The covenant of the League of Nations which 
is the work of President Woodrow Wilson, is the 
greatest document since the time of Christ. It 
means peace, prosperity and happinessi for the 
world. 



MAY 7, 1915. 

Liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German 
submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 
more than thousand lives — one hundred and two 
Americans, 



MAY 7, 1917. 

U. S. War Department orders raising of nine 
volunteer regiments of engineers to go to France. 

(29) 



MAY 7, 1919. 

German envoys at' Peace Table nervous under 
cold stares of their conquerors. Peace terms pre- 
sented to German delegates on fourth anniversary 
of sinking of the Lusitania. 



MAY 9, 1917. 

Siberia breaks with Germany. 



MAY 10, 1917. 

Draft age limit set at 21 to 31 years. 



MAY 10, 1918. 

British naval ''bottles up" Ostend. 



MAY 13, 1916. 

Austrians begin great offensive against Italians 
in Trentino. 



MAY 14, 1917. 

Espionage act becomes law by passing Senate. 

MAY 14, 1919. 

Private W. E. Strickland, Seventh Field Artil- 
lery of Hortense, Ga., has been awarded a gold 
medal by Gen. Pershing for being among the 25 
best pistol gshots in the American Expeditionary 
Forces. 

(30) 



According to General March, U. S. Army spent 
fourteen billions of total world war cost of $23,- 
363,000,000. 



MAY 17, 1919. 

U. S. troops to remain on Eliine at least five 
years. 



MAY 19, 1917. 

President Wils>on signs conscription bill, also di- 
rects expeditionary force of regulars under Gener- 
al Pershing to go to France. 

General John J. Pershing appointed commander- 
in-chief of American expeditionary forces. 

Congress passes war appropriation bill of $3,- 
000,000,000. 

Herbert C. Hoover named food administrator. 

Nicaragua breaks with Germany. 



MAY 20, 1917. 

All men within age limit must register. 
No exemptions, government rigorously to prose- 
cute slackers. 

Mobilization of Pershing's troops sitarts. 



MAY 21, 1918. 

First American field army of 200,000 formed. 

(31) 



MAY 23, 1917. 

House passes greatest war tax bill in world 's 
history, carrying total of $1,870,000,000. 



MAY 23, 1919. 

There are more American graves' in France this 
year than there were last year, but the reward of 
this great sacrifice has come in the defeat of Ger- 
man militarism. 



$82,000,000 was bill rendered to Britain for car- 
rying American troops to France in time to stop 
German drive for Paris and Channel ports. 



1919. 

2,000 wounded sailors' and soldiers to be taken to 
Augusta's Eehabilitation camp at old Camp Han- 
cock in care of the War Eisk Insurance Act. 

MAY 24, 1918. 

British ship Moldavia carrying American troops 
torpedoed — fifty lost. 

1919. 

The war department has resolved $236,130,000 of 
war materials. Total to be s-old is $1,931,500,000. 

Seven ships bring home 25,000 officers and men 
of the A. E. F. Grenades make toy banks. 

(32) 



MAY 24, 1919. 

Soldiers prefer eats and smokes) and human 
treatment to decorations as a welcome home from 
overseas. 



1919. 

Lusitania medal dies, destroyed by German gov- 
ernment. 



MAY 26, 1919. 

U. S. will surrender no German s'hipping. 

General Pershing ordered all American forces 
in France to take part in memorial day exercises. 

70,000' graves of U. S. soldiers are to be decorat- 
ed. 



MAY 27, 1918. 

Germans begin third phase of drive on Aisne- 
Marne front, between Soi^sons and Eheims — gain 
five miles. 



MAY 27, 1919. 

Millions in Chicago welcome the 33rd division. 



MAY 28, 1918. 

Americans capture Cantigny in local attack. 

Germans take 15,000 prisoners in drive beyond 
Chemin des Dames. 
MAY 28, 1919. 

(33) 



Germany is given seventy-two hourg notice of 
the termination of the armistice. Allies to block- 
ade if Germany refuses. 



MAY 29, 1918. 

United States Shipping Board announced the 
completion of ten steel ships in one week. 



MAY 29, 1919. 

Demand for Kaiser 'a surrender refused. 



MAY 30, 1919. 

Graves of Yankees in the cemetery at Oudenarde 
decorated by Belgians. 

Uncle Sam opened school for 200,000 khaki-clad 
pupils abroad result of the establishment of the 
educational corps of the United States under di- 
rection of Brigadier General Eobert L. Eee3. 



MAY 30, 1918. 

President Wilson called all the people of the 
United States to prayer in their homes and places 
of public worship beseeching Almighty God to bless 
our country, to give strength and victory to the 
men of our armies and to thogae with whom they are 
allied in defense of the cause of righteousness 
against German autocracy. 

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MAY 29, 1918. 

Germans take Soissons and menace Rheims'. 

52,000 soldiers have asked United States for 
farms. 

Soldiers' experience in France has awakened 
this keen interest. 

Germans reach the Marne, fifty-five miles from 
Paris. 



JUKE 1, 1918. 

Germans take 45,000 prisoners in drive. Marne 
River crossed by Germans. 

320,000 U. S. Soldiers brought home in May, 1919. 



JUNE 1, 1919. 

210,000 overseamen in American army are pres- 
ently studying in European schools and universities. 



JUNE 2, 1918. 

Marines help stop German drive on Paris at sec- 
ond Battle of the Marne. 

Austria isJ recognized as republic in peace pact, 
must reply by June 15th. 

^'Knights of Columbus" have supplied 5,000 
baseball outfits for soldiers overseas. 



JUNE 3, 1918. 

Five German submarines attack U. S. coast and 
sink eleven ships — beginning of American co-oper- 

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ation on major scale. 



JUNE 3, 1919. 

773,245 U. S. troops are still quartered overseas. 



JUNE 4, 1919. 

Austrian terms not yet acceptable to Govern- 
ment. 

Germans crying for protectorate by United 
States'. 

Germany circulates full text of peace treaty in 
neutral countries. 

Total gross public debt of the United States on 
May 31, 1919, was $25,921,151,273.75, the treasury 
department announced. 



JUNE 5, 1916. 

Lord Kitchener lost with Cruiser Plampshire. 



JUNE 5, 1918. 

American resis-tance helps definitely to halt Ger- 
mans on Soissons-Chateau Thierry line. 

U. S. Marines fight on the Marne near Chateau 
Thierry. 



JUNE 5, 1917. 

10,000,000 men in U. S. registered for military 
service, 

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JUNE 5, 1919. 

Two years ago we registered for a duty to our 
country. 

JUNE 6, 1917. 

United States liner sinks big U-boat in thrilling 
fight. Members of American Peace Delegation dis- 
turbed by report that copies of German peace 
terms have re^ached New York. 



JUNE 7, 1919. 

Many U. S. troops listed for early return. Ger- 
man minister to finance, Dr. Dernburg, declares 
that Germany will not sign the peace treaty as 
presented on account of financial demands. 



JUNE 9, 1918. 

Germany start fourth phase of their drive by ad- 
vancing toward Noyon. 



YORK'S TESTIMONY. 

''There has been no army in the world which 
did its work with so great a will as did our army. 
America now has a chance to put itself at the top 
notch in the hearts of the people of the world and 
during this time we could not forget whose hand 
it was that was with uga during it alh America to- 
day is the only nation of the world that had a gen- 
eration of young men, and I firmly believe it is the 

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most Christian nation in the world." 
CREDITS ALL TO GOD. 

''The hand of God, I believe, was certainly with 
us during the war. We did not want money or 
fame in this war. There was gjomething higher 
and better than that. The boys who gave their lives 
for our country have done a great deal and we 
ought to be proud of them." 

Sergeant York had a shampoo and his nails mani- 
cured for the first time since his return to Ameri- 
ca here today. 

When informed that William J. Bryan, who is 
in Nas'hville, had donated an acre to the farm 
which is to be presented to the nation's hero, York 
simply replied with a smile, ' ' That 's nice. ' ' 



JUNE 10, 1918. 

Germans resoime long-range bombardment of 
Paris. 

United States marines capture south end of Bel- 
leau wood — Germans gain only two miles. 



JUNE 10, 1919. 

Four concessions demanded by the Germans in 
peace treaty. 

Strong effortgi made in Germany by military as- 
sociation to secure the return of the former 
Kaiser. 

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JUNE 11, 1917. 

Eussians are informed by President Wilson that 
United States fight to make end of war. 

Germany will be made to pay for the wrong? 
she has done in Belgium and France. 



JUNE 11, 1918. 

Germany must reply in a week whether she will 
accept peace treaty. 



JUNE 11, 1919. 

Ex-soldiers first ones to get a job. 



JUNE 12, 1917. 

King Constantine of Greece abdicates. 



JUNE 12, 1918. 

French and Americans start counter-attack. 
American marines capture Belleau Wood which 
French rename "Marines' Wood." 



JUNE 12, 1919. 

If Germany does not sign peace treaty, Allies 
will enforce blockade which will cause starvation. 



JUNE 13, 1917. 

President Wilson is denounced by German edi- 
tor3 for war message sent to Eussia. Charged 
President Wilson seeks to prolong bloody war. 

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General Pershing and staff arrive in Paris. 



JUNE 14, 1919. 

Prencli press alarmed at threats of the American 
Senate to separate the League of Nations eo-'^'^n- 
ant from the peace treaty. 



JUNE 16, 1919. 

Definite announcement is made at the White 
House that President Wilson will campaign for 
''League" (his work at the peace conference) im- 
mediately upon his return to the United States. 



JUNE 17, 1918. 

Italians check Austrians on Piave Eiver. 



JUNE 17, 1919. 

Ultimatum s'ent by Allied Powers with new 
peace treaty. If the answer is, "No" Armistice 
will be declared off. 



JUNE 18, 1917. 

Haiti breaks with Germany. 



JUNE 18, 1918. 

Austrians cross the Piave. 



JUNE 18, 1919. 

Leaves to soldiers to visit recreation points with- 

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in the American zone on the Rhine — have been sus- 
pended until it is known whether the Germans 
will accept or reject the peace conditions. 



JUNE 19, 1919. 

President Wilson is touring Belgium accompan- 
ied by King and Queen of Belgium. 



JUNE 21, 1919. 

Under hois«t of German flag $400,000,000 lost by 
the sinking of the Germans' own fleet in Scapa 
Flow in about five hours. 



Greek-born Americans from several United 
States Army Units working for the army food 
commission or American Red Cross Balkan Com- 
mis'sion, are permitted to visit boy-hood home in 
Greece before returning to America. 



JUNE 20, 1919. 

Marshall Foch has received from the Allies sole 
charge with all relations with Germany. 



More than 100 refugee orphans at the Apano 
Scala Orphanage are being cared for under the di- 
rection of American Red Cross and taught to sew 
on American sewing machines. 



Sinking at Scapa Flow (in the bleak Orkneysi an 
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important British naval base) practically the whole 
of the interned German fleet of $200,000,000 value 
surrendered under terms of armistice— Nov. 21, 
1918. 



JUNE 22, 1918. 

Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave. 



JUNE 22, 1919. 

By vote of 237 to 138 German assembly at 
Weimar decides to sign peace treaty. 



JUNE 23, 1919. 

Germans must accept peace treaty uncondition- 
ally or the French, British and American armies 
will begin to advance. 

The German Officers Association claiming to rep- 
resent 1,000,000 Germans, has s'ent a note to the 
Dutch government reques'ting that Holland refuse 
to deliver the former Kaiser to the allies for 
trial. It proves difficult to find Germans willing 
to sign the peace treaty. 



JUNE 25, 1919. 

Army of 400,000 wanted by senate. 

The Boy Scouts will have to delay their "bon- 
fire" a couple of days' until the Germans sign the 
peace treaty. 

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JUNE 26, 1917. 

First contingent American troops under Gen. 
Sibert arrives in France. 

Germans) lose faith in submarine campaign as 
bringer of peace. 

During the Eed Cross campaign men were re- 
quested to bare heads when noon whistle blew to 
beseech blessings for thousands of American sol- 
diers who were to depart for France. 



JUNE 26, 1918. 

Battle of Cantigny fought. 



JUNE 26, 1919. 

Germans choose Mueller and Dr. Bell to sign 
peace treaty. 



JUNE 27, 1917. 

Belgium War Commission received in United 
States House of Eepresentatives. 



JUNE 28, 1914. 

Archduke Ferdinand and wife of Austria assas- 
sinated in Sara Jevo, Bosnia. (Serbia). (So- 
called origin of the world war). 



JUNE 28, 1917. 

Greece breaks off diplomatic relations with Ger 
many, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. 

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JUNE 28, 1919. 

Germans sign treaty of jDeace — Teuton autocracy 
a thing of the past — The great world war is end- 
ed. (Signed by Dr. Mueller & Dr Bell.) 



Scheideman German Social Democrat expressed 
the belief that Germany's only Salvation lay in im- 
mediate democratic action of the Empire. 



Kaiser chooses death rather than trial s'ays Crown 
Prince. 



JUNE 28— 

Treaty of peace signed with Germany on forty- 
eighth anniversary of birth of German empire in 
Hall of Mirrors Versailles where first German kaiser 
was crowned. 



The peace treaty manifests the victory of ideals 
of freedom and of liberty for which untold s'acri- 
fices have been made. 



JULY 1, 1919. 

Wartime prohibition in effect through United 
States. 



JULY 1, 1916. 

British and French begin great offensive on the 
Somme. 

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JULY 1, 1917. 

President Wilson attacked by Danish Socialist 
declaring his '^Idealism" a clock for capitalistic 
interests. Pershing and Joffre become Pals as 
they plan German defeat. War to continue un- 
til the allies reach their aims. 



JULY 1, 1918. 

Germany asks total surrender of allies. 

Wounded Soldiers cost Uncle Sam $25,000 on 
salaries per week at Forts, At Camp Gordon more 
than $350,000 goes out weekly to men being dis- 
charged. 1919. 



JULY 2, 1919. 

20,800 more troops sail for home. 



JULY 3, 1917. 

Hindenburg trusts in the Submarines for Ger- 
mans victorious end of war. First complete unit 
of American troops reaches France. 



JULY 3, 1919. 

General Pershing abolishes Military Censiorship. 
Agreement is wanted with Washington that no 
more United States Soldiers be sent across the 
Border. Only regular divisions of American Army 
now remain on German soil. 

The great gold medal of the city of Paris pre- 

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sented to Gen. Pershing and Rear Admiral Knapp, 
Commander of the American, naval forces in Eu- 
ropean waters. 1919. 

The German national assembly is scheduled to 
vote upon acceptance or rejection of the peace 
treaty the 9th, the federal committee having ap- 
proved ratification of the pact. 

Germans still out to save the Ex-Kaiser. ^ 



President Wilson will justify the peace treaty 
and the league of nations. 

Demobilization of war army ordered. Total of 
169,493 officers and men of Line and 63,815 for 
Staff corps and the Department in Peace Strength 
Personal of 170,000 allowed the Navy. 

Hereafter overseas troops are called ''American 
Forces" in Germany.-' 



''GEEAT OLD COUNTRY." 
Great old Country heart arid hand; 
Blow on the bugle — play the band! 
Know how to march when she takes command,— 
Ain't she the great old Country! 

Great old Country — hill and plain: 
Home-folks meetin' the Good Times Train, 
And the boys that she loves best — home again, — 
Ain't she the Great old. Country! 

Frank L. Stanton — 
(Atlanta Con.stitution) . 

(46) 



Army discharging 15,000 men each day. 



JULY 6, 1916. 

David Lloyd George appointed secretary of war. 



JULY 6. 1919. 

Nine ''Y" buildings at Camp Sheridan and one 
at Taylor Field have been sold for the average 
of $400 each to farmers for new buildings on 
their plantations in the vicinity of Montgomery. 



Great Britain owes about $4,260,000,000 to the 
United States while the various American de 
partmentsj owe the British departmehts, roughh/ 
$210,000,000. 



JULY 9, 1916. 

German merchant submarine ''DEUTSCHLAND" 
arrives at Baltimore. 

July 9, 1917. 

Entire National Guard called into federal serv- 
ice. 
JULY 8, 1918. 

Pershing's battle troops reach 500,000. 
JULY 8, 1919. 

President. Wilson is greeted by a mighty fleet and 
throng of notables and thousands of school children 
upon hia return from France. 

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''Fret not thyself because of evildoers neither 
be thou envious against the. workers of iniquity." 
—Psalms XXXVII. 

JULY 9, 1917. 

United States refuses to continue to supply Ger- 
many with food and raw materials'. 

Emperor William invites neutral ambassadors 
and ministers to a conference. 

A new peace proposal may be the result in favor 
of Germany. 



JULY 9, 1919. 

President Ebert signed the bill ratifying the 
peace treaty at 8 o'clock tonight, according to the 
'' Vorwaerts, " and the document has been de- 
spatched to Versailles. 

Speaking to a great crowd in Carnegie Hall, Wil- 
son says Peace Concluded at Paris Is ''A Just 
Peace" and Will Safeguard the World From Un- 
necessary Bloodshed. 

War expenses of all warring countries were es- 
timated at $6,000,000 every hour. 

According to secretary McAdoo, United States 
war cost for the first year amounted to $27,397,260. 

JULY 10, 1919. 

In presenting result of Paris conference Pres. 

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Wilson will deliver addres'S outlining details of 
negotiations. 

After addressing a great crowd at Carnegie Hall 
President Wilson left for Washington. 

National Assembly at Weimar ratifies Treaty of 
Peace by vote of 208 — Allies will lift Blockade of 
Germany. President Wils'on request U. S. Senate 
to approve result of Paris conference. Peace 
Treaty will be received in open session and will 
be ordered printed on record. 

President Wilson is planning conciliatory Policy 
in League of Nation Struggle. 

President Wilson lays peace treaty before Sen- 
ate; League of Nation Covenant is* temporarily in 
the hands of peace treaty hostile committee. Pres- 
ident says hope of world lies in success of Coven- 
ant. President praises U. S. army. 

JULY 11, 1918. 

United States Steamship WESTOVER sunk by 
the German U Boats in War. 



JULY 11, 1919. 

U. S. Shipping board announced sale of twelve 
more wooden ships making a total of 31, for $5,- 
400,000. 

Ex Kaiser may suffer fate of Napoleon. 

Eepublicans are not in favor to call President 
Wilson to the witness chair before upper house 

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or committee. The clemocratsi however are insist- 
ing that the President be heard. Senators to start 
anti-League Tour. 



JULY 12, 1917. 

Political disturbances in Prussia and Imperial 
cabinet. 

Five Prussian ministers resigned. The Kaisier 
lost his Power. 



JULY 13, 1915. 

Germans defeated in Argonne. 
JULY 13, 1917. 

U. S. War department order, drafts 678,000 men 
into military service. 

Shall it be ''peace" without annexations or in- 
demnities or s'hall it be a Hindenburg peace? 



JULY 14, 1917. 

Sensational rumors that Kaiser William has lost 
his trone. 

'Chancelor von Bethman Hollweg forced to re- 
sign. Preliminary reforms in Germany must in- 
evitably create a new deal making for peace. Ger- 
man minister of War Betliman Hollweg succeeded 
by Dr. George Michaelis". 

Germany undergoes great political crisis. 

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JULY 14, 1919. 

Victory parade at Paris ''Bastile Day." Amer- 
ican troops have been accorded the honor of 
marching at the head being led by Marshall Foch 
and Marshall Joffre. 

In 1917 a long war was predicted if Eevolution 
in Germany did not occur. 
JULY 15, 1918. 

At the Reichstag, Germany discuss'es peace res- 
olutions. 

On the Aisne-Marne front the Germans began 
their so-called peace-drive with which they hoped 
to conquer the world. Austrians began another 
drive on Italy. 

JULY 16, 1917. 

Emperor Charles of Austria says' he is seeking 
peace. 

President Wilson and Poincare seal French-Am- 
erican Unity. 



The government makes great effort to resist 
Germany's power by preparing the strongest of 
armies' and navies and provide for their indefinite 
maintenance. 

JULY 18, 1917. 

U. S. Government orders censorship of telegrams 

(51) 



and cablegrams crossino- frontiera. 



JULY 18, 1918. 

Gen. Foch launches allied offensive with French, 
American, British, Italian and Belgian troops out m 
of Compiegne Foresit. 



JULY 19, 1918. 

Soissons captured, victory whistles blow. 30,000 
prisoners taken. Eainbow division in great offen- 
sive drive. Prisoners captured in first days' drive 
number over 10,000 on the Aisne-Marne front. 

Total indebtedness of the Allies from the United 
States is $6,380,040,000. America sends 844,600,000 
pounds more meat and 80,900,000 bus-hels more 
cereals to allies. 



JULY 20, 1917. 

First draft drawing in Washington. First num- 
ber is 258. 



JULY 21, 1917. 

Germany's Chancellor Michaelis' favors only a 
peace with annexations and indemnities. 



JULY 21, 1918. 

Americans and French capture Chateau Tliierry. 

(52) 



JULY 22, 1917. 

President Wilson will personally figlit for food 
control by Hoover. Siam declares war on Ger- 
many. 



JULY 23, 1917. 

Senate passes food control bill. 

Amerieans pursoie foe through Chateau Thierry 
and Jaulgonne. 

There is threat of an Italian-German alliance 
because Italians are dissatisfied with the peace 
terms. Imagine the Kaiser crossing his fingers'. 
He once had an alliance with Italy ''Triple Alli- 
ance" before (and look what happened then) he 
started on the last expedition— but for Italy the 
Germans would have had Paris. 

Senator Lewis says that German Chancellor Mi- 
chaelisJ invites America to work for peace. 

Keichstag leaders called by Kaiser to discuss re- 
form. 

Premier Kerensky given unlimited powers in 
Eussia. 



The war program of the United States demands 
at once a second five billion dollars war fund. 
The ''Millionaire" regiment 'of engineers — the 
17th — started to follow closely upon the last units 
of Pershing's forces to assist in rehabilitating the 
wrecked bridges and war-torn railroads left by 

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the retiring Germans. 



JULY 26, 1917. 

Lloyd George predicts that if the war is pro- 
longed, America's assistance will enable the Allies 
finally to conquer the Central Empires. 

$5,000,000,000 more are demanded by the Ameri- 
can War Department for the prosecution of the 
war. 

Hearst urgesi American government in newspaper 
article of seizing opportunity to bring the warring 
governments of Europe together around conference 
table in order to accomplish peace. 



JULY 27, 1917. 

Kerensky, Eussia's firs't war minister, wound- 
ed in arm in battle on eastern front. 



JULY 28, 1914. 

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. 



JULY 28, 1917. 

$10,735,807,000 asked for year of war. United 
States troops in France ready for action. Allied 
commanding' officers are looking to the United 
States for help. German lines almost impregnable. 



JULY 29, 1917. 

Government war ventures] since April 6, are 

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for war purposes the flotation of: $2,000,000,000 in 
treasury certificates and $2,000,000,000 Liberty 
Bonds, 

By selective draft method 10,000,000 men regis- 
tered for military service. 

Successful landing of a military force under 
Gen. Pershing in France. 



JULY 30, 1917. 

Allies accus'ed of prolonging war, Germany 
ready for so-called conquest honorable peace. 

Secretary Lansing says only physical might of 
the allies is able to impress German people. 



German crown-prince flees from the Marne and 
withdraws^ army. 



JULY 30, 1918. 

Increase of the regular army to 300,000' men, 
national guard 400,000, navy 150,000, marine corps 
30,000'. 

The lending of approximately 1,500,000,000 men 
to Great Britain, France, Belgium and Russia se- 
cured peace for the World till German pledges 
were made powerless. 



AUGUST 1, 1914. 

Germany declares war on Russia. 

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AUGUST 1, 1917. 

PoiDe Benedict XV makes plea for peace, on a 
basis of no annexation and no indemnity. 



AUGUST 2, 1914. 

Germany asks Belgium for free pas-sage of her 
troops, after entering Luxembourg over protest. 



AUGUST 2, 1916. 

Soisson recaptured by General Foch. 



AUGUST 3, 1914. 

Belgium appeals to Great Britain for diplomatic 
aid. 



AUGUST 3, 1918. 

Allies sweep on between Soisson and Rheims 
and capture the entire Ais-ne-Vesle front. 



AUGUST 4, 1914. 

France declares war on Germany. Germany de- 
clared war on Belgium. British army mobilized. 
State of war between Great Britain and Ger- 
many declared. President Wilson issues neutrality 
proclamation. 
AUGUST 4, 1918. 

Americans take Fismes. Birthday of Marshal 
Ferdinand Foch in 1851. Saviour of civilization in 
1918. 

(56) 



AUGUST 5, 1914. 

Germany ask? for Italy's help and begins fight- 
ing on Belgian frontier. 
AUGUST 5, 1918. 

American troops landed at Archangel. 

Americans and French steadily contracting 
Marne Salient. 



Americans alone capturing 8,400. Enemy trying 
to reach line of the Aisne. 



AUGUST 6, 1914. 

Austria declares war on Russia. 



AUGUST 7, 1914. 

Germans defeated by French at Altkirch. 



AUGUST 7, 1918. 

Americans cros's the Eiver Vesle on five mile 
front. 



AUGUST 8„ 1914. 

Germans capture Liege. British land troops in 
France. 



AUGUST 8, 1918. 

New allied drive begun by Field Marshal Haig 
in Picardy penetrating enemy front fourteen 
miles. 

(57) 



AUGUST 9, 1916. 

Italians cross Isonzo Eiver and occupy Austrian 
city Goeritz. 



AUGUST 9, 1918. 

In their offensive Piccardi drive east of Amiens 
since July 10, the allies recapture more than 200 • 
towns. The Germans failed with at least 17 di- 
visions. 



AUGUST 10, 1914. 

France declared war on Austria-Hungary. 



AUGUST 10, 1918. 

Americans participate in Picardi victory. Mont- 
didier won by French. 25,000 prisoners and over 
400 guns captured. 



AUGUST 11, 1918. 

Americansi still fighting in great Picardi Battle. 



AUGUST 12, 1914. 

Groat Britain declared war on Austria-Hun- 
gary. 

Montenegro declared war on Germany. 



AUGUST 12, 1918. 

The greatest German collapse on the Picardi 
front in the Montdidier sector, the line completely 

(58) 



giving away. Three German generals were fired 
for the defeat. 



AUGUST 13, 1918. 

First phase of the Allies great drive in Picardi 
ends. So far the most succesyfiil attack the war 
had known in the Western theater. 



AUGUST 15, 1914. 

Japan sends ultimatum to Germany to withdraw 
from Japanese and Chinese waters. 



AUGUST 16, 1918. 

Americans and French recapture Bapaume. 



Belgium won the war by delaying the German 
hordes on her borders*. Great Britain won the war 
by blocking the road to the channel ports and by 
the strength of her navy. France won the war 
by her heroic sacrifice at Verdun and in the first 
battle of the Marne. The United States won the 
war by producing the needed superiority of fight- 
ing strength to turn the uneven balance in the 
fourth year of the conflict, and after this has been 
said it may be stated with equal decisiveness that 
the war was won by one man. His name is Fer- 
dinand Foch. The man who out generaled and 
vanquished the greatest military organization that 
ever had been perfected in the his-tory of war. 

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AUGUST 19, 1916. 

German submarines sink British cruisers Botting- 
ham and Falmouth. 



AUGUST 20, 1914. 

German army enters Brussels. 



AUGUST 21, 1915. 

Italy declared war on Turkey. 



AUGUST 23, 1914. 

Japan declared war on Germany. 



AUGUST 25, 1914. 

Japan and Ausitria break up diplomatic relations. 



AUGUST 25, 1917. 

Italian second army breaks through Austrian 
line on Isonzo Front. 

AUGUST 27, 1916. 

Italy declares war on Germany. Roumania en- 
ters war on side of allies. 



AUGUST 27, 1917. 

Sweeping embargo ordered to give United 
States control of all exports. 

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AUGUST 28, 1914. 

English win naval battle over Germany near 
Helgoland. 



AUGUST 28, 1917. 

President Wils'on rejects Pope Benedict's peac- 
plea. 



AUGUST 28, 1918. 

French rccross tlie Somme. 



AUGUST 29, 1916. 

Field Marshal von Hindcnburg made chief of 
staff of German armies succeeding Gen von Falk- 
enhain. 

AUGUST 29, 1918. 

Noyon and Baupaume fall in new allied ad- 
vance. 

AUGUST 30, 1916. 

Russian armies seize all five passies in Carpath- 
ians into Hungary. 

SEPTEMBER 1, 1914. 

Germans cross Marne. Zeppelins drop bombs on 
Antwerp. First bombs' dropped on Paris. 

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1915. 

Foul promise of Ambassador Beriistorff announc- 
ing Germans will sink no more United States ships 
without warning. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1918. 

General Foch retakes Peroune. 

SEPTEMBER 2, 1914. 

Government of France transferred to Bordeaux. 



SEPTEMBER 2, 1918. 

Americans! fought for the first time on Belgium 
soil and captured Voormezele. 

SEPTEMBER 3, 1916. 

Allies renew offensive north of Somme. Bulgar- 
ian and German troops invade Eoumania. 

SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. 

England, France and Russia sign pact to make 
no separate peace. 

SEPTEMBER 5, 1918. 

Americansi and French extend crossing of Vesle. 



SEPTEMBER 6, 1914. 

French under General Foch win first Battle of 
Marne. 

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1918. 

Americans and French close in on Crown 
Prince's army along Aisne. 

SEPTEMBER 7, 1914. 

Germans are retreating: from the Marne. 



SEPTEMBER 8, 1917. 

State Department exposes German duplicity and 
Count Luxbuvg's ''Spurlos Versenkt" (sink with- 
out trace) submarine conspiracy in Argentina. 

SEPTEMBER 9, 1915. 

Germans make first air raid on London killing 
twenty persons and wounding hundred others. 

SEPTEMBER 10, 1917. 

General Korniloff demands control of Kussdan 
government. 

SEPTEMBER 11, 1917. 

Korniloff 's generals ordered arrested. Russian 
deputies vote to support Kerensky. 



SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. 

Germans are driven back to the Hindenburg 
line which they held in November, 1917. 

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1913. 

Americans launch gmccessful attack in St. Mihiel 
Salient. 

Kegistration day for new draft army of men be- 
tween 18 and 45 in the U. S. 

SEPTEMBER 13, 1918. 

First distinctly American operation under Gen. 
Pershing's personal supervision, executed under or- 
ders of American officers with American soldiers'. 
St. Mihiel sector 40 mile launched between the 
Meuse and Moselle rivers, on the Franco-German 
border. Germany's most unlucky day. Thirteen is 
President Wilson 'si lucky number. 58th anniversary 
of Gen. John J. Pershing's birth in Missouri. 

SEPTEMBER 14, 1914. 

Battle of Amiens starts"; Germans retreat halted. 

SEPTEMBER 14, 1916. 

British for the first time use tanks. 



SEPTEMBER 14, 1918. 

St. Mihiel recaptured from Germans. Americans 
liberate thirty towns', take 13,300 prisoners. 

''The Star Spangled Banner" was originally 
written by Francis Scott Key, September 14, 1814. 
(With flag) Old Glory. 



(64) 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1914. 

First battle of Soissons fought. 

SEPTEMBER 15, 1916. 

Italians begin new offense on Carg»o. 

SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. 

Russia proclaims new republic by order of Pre- 
mier Kerenski, 



SEPTEMBER 16, 1918. 

Metz forces under American fire. 



SEPTEMBER 17, 1918. 

United States spurns Austrian peace offer. 

SEPTEMBER 18, 1918. 

Yanks smiash ahead in Lorraine. 

SEPTEMBER 19, 1918. 

United States outlaws Russian Bolsheviki. 

SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. 

Gen. Ilaig advances through the German lines at 
Ypres. 



SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. 

Nazareth occupied by British forces in Pales- 
tine under Gen. Allenby. 

(65) 



SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. 

Committee on public information begins publica- 
tion of conquest and ^'Kultur" exposure. 

SEPTEMBER, 1919. 

President Wilson suffered nervous and physical 
collapse while speaking in behalf of Peace Treaty. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 1918. 

British take 40,000 prisoners' in Palestine of- 
fense. 

SEPTEMBER 26, 1918. 

United States squelches German peace feeler. 

SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. 

Amercian troops now number around 2,000,000. 
First American army breaks line near Verdun. 

Franco-Americans in drive from Rheims to Ver- 
dun take 30,000 prisoners. 

SEPTEMBER 28, 1918. 

Allies win on 250 mile line from North Sea to 
Verdun. 

SEPTEMBER 29, 1918. 

Allies cross Hindenburg line. 

(66) 



SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. 

Gen. Talker H. Bliss named chief of staff U. S. 
Army. 

SEPTEMBER 30, 1918. 

Bulgaria surrenders, after successful allied cam- 
paign in Balkans and agrees to turn over her rail- 
ways to the Allies. 

General d'Esperey was the allied commander. 

OCTOBER 1, 1918. 

French take St. Quentin, the corner of the Hin- 
denburg line. 

OCTOBER 2, 1918. 

Surrender of Bulgaria likely to force immediate 
retirement of Germans. 

Lens evacuated by Germans. 

OCTOBER 3. 1918. 

Albania cleared of Austrians by Italians. 

OCTOBER 4, 1918. 

Ferdinand King of Bulgaria abdicates. Boris 
succeeds. Au£»tria asks Holland to mediate with 
Allies for peace. 

OCTOBER 5, 1918. 

Germans start abandonment of Lille and burn 

(67) 



Douai. 

World favors fourteen points for world peace 
given by President Wilson. 

OCTOBER 6, 1918. 

Germany asks President Wilson for armistice 
peace terms. 

Austria wants to quit now. 



OCTOBER 7, 1918. 

Americans capture hills around Argonne. Berry 
Au Bac taken by French. 



OCTOBER 8, 1918. 

President Wilson refuses armistice. Senate 
backs peace only with victory. 



OCTOBER 10, 1914. 

Germans capture Antwerp. 

OCTOBER 10, 1918. 

Allies capture Cambrai. President Wilson re- 
plies to German peace note. Germans evacuate oc- 
cupied lands everywhere. 

OCTOBER 10, 1918. 

Alliest capture LeCateau. Berlin rioting mobs 
cry for peace. 

'^Leinster" passenger Steamer sunk in Irish 

(68) 



Channel bv German submarine. 480 lives lost. 



OCTOBER 11, 1916. 

Greek seacoast forts dismantled and turned over 
to Allies! on demand of England and France. 

OCTOBER 11, 1918. 

American transport *'Otranto" torpedoed and 
sunk. 500 men lost. Kaiser may be forced to ab- 
dicate and quit in favor of Crown Prince 's eldest 
son. Americans advance tlirougli Argonne forest. 



OCTOBER 12, 1914. 

Germans take Ghent. 



OCTOBER 12, 1918. 

Austria and Turkey accept the American and 
Allied peace terms. 



OCTOBER 13, 1918. 

Great critic Simond? believes it inevitable that 
according to present military situation there will 
be one more war campaign to secure a decisive 
victory over German military power. 

Foch's troops take Laon and Lafer. 

Unofficial test of Germany's reply on questions 
regarding foundation of a permanent peace on 
justice meets every demand of Presddent Wilson. 
Germans agree to evacuate all foreign soil. 

(69) 



OCTOBER 14, 1918. 

Heavy German attacks east of the Argonne were 
broken up by American counter attacks. 

British and Belgians cross Lys river, take 12,000 
prisoners and 100 guns. Quarter million refugees 
crowd roads in flight to Dutch frontier. 



OCTOBER 16, 1918. 

Allies enter Lille outskirts. Big German U-boat 
bases out flanked. 



OCTOBER 17, 1918. 

Allies capture Lille, Bruges, Zeebrugge, Ostend 
and Douai. Americans wade waist deep to cap- 
ture Grandpre, the German stronghold. Douai fall? 
to Allies. 



OCTOBER 18, 1918. 

Czecho-Slovaks issue declaration of independence. 
French take Thielt. 4,600 guns captured by Allies 
since July 18th. 

German troops are quitting Balkan?. 

Germans fleeing, burning Belgian towns. 



OCTOBER 19, 1917. 

United State? transport ''Antilles" torpedoed on 
her way home. 70 of 237 on board missing. 

(70) 



OCTOBER 19, 1918. 

President Wilson refuses Austrian peace plea 
and says Czecho-Slovak state must be considered. 

** Marseillaise" (the French National song) sung 
by crowds in Berlin riot. Police had to prevent. 



OCTOBER 21, 1918. 

Allies cross the Oise and threaten Valenciennes. 
Senator Poindexter of Washington introduced a 
joint resolution proposing that Congress forbid fur- 
tiier negotiations by the United States with Ger- 
many looking to the granting of an armistice or 
peace until the German military forces have sur- 
rendered unconditionally. 

It was referred to the foreign relations com- 
mittee. 



OCTOBER 22, 1918. 

Ilaig's forces cross the Schelde (Scheldt). Pe- 
tain's forces co-operate in center of AUie?' line in 
Belgium. British in drive along Ecaillon river 
capture part of Thiaut. 

OCTOBER 23, 1917. 

First American troops enter trendies in France 
and fire their first shot. 



OCTOBER 23, 1918. 

President Wilson refuses latest; German peace 

(71) 



plea. Cabinet heads in conference. Evacuate first, 
then confer is demand in Washington. 



OCTOBER 24, 1918. 

President Wilson in reply to another German 
note, declares that the mastery of the German peo- 
ple cannot be trusted; Allied terms must stand. 



OCTOBER 25, 1917. 

French under Gen. Pctain advance and take 
12,000 prisoners on Aisne front. 



OCTOBER 25, 1918. 

Beginning of terrific Italian drive which nets 
.50,000 prisoners in five days". 



OCTOBER 26, 1918. 

America's might and unity of command is win- 
ning the war for the Allies. 

Americans after wiping out Montdidier salient 
and beginning to marcli up the Meuse clear Bour- 
gogne Forest. 



OCTOBER 27, 1917. 

Formal announcement of Americans operating 
under supervision of French officer? against Ger- 
man autocracy. Artillery man fires first American 
shot. 

Second Liberty Bond sale reaches $5,000,000,000. 

(72) 



OCTOBER 27, 1918. 

German government asks President Wilson to 
state peace terms" — (armistice terms.) 



OCTOBER 28, 1917. 

The first shot fired by the American soldiers in 
France. 



OCTOBER 28, 1918. 

Austria l)egs for separate peace. 

Emperor William remarked: ''I will not aban- 
don my sorely tried people, but if necessary, I am 
ready to become something like hereditary Pre£»i- 
dent of a German republic like the Kings of Eng- 
land, Belgium and Italy. 

OCTOBER 29, 1914. 

Turkey begins war on Russia. 



OCTOBER 29. 1918. 

Auistria opens direct negotiations with Secretary 
Lansing. 



OCTOBER 30, 1918. 

Italians capture 53,000. Austrians evacuate 
Italian territory. Armis»tice terms: Surrender 
German forts and navy. 

(73) 



OCTOBER 31, 1918. 

Turkey sfurreuders. Conditions include free 
passage of Dardanelles. 

Austrians utterly routed by Italians. Send en- 
voys under white flag entering Italian lines, begging 
for quick peace, Italians pursue beaten Austrians 
across Tagliamento river. Lost 50,000. 

NOVEMBER 1, 1916. 

Italians in new offensive on the Carso plateau 
capture 5,000 Austrian^. 



NOVEMBER 1, 1918. 

Clery-le-Grand captured by American troops of 
first army. 

NOVEMBER 2, 1916. 

Germans evacuate Port Vaux at Verdun. 



NOVEMBER 2, 1918. 

What have his critics done that can compare 
with the service that Woodrow Wilson has render- 
ed to the world? — Arthur Brisbane. 

NOVEMBER 3, 1918. 

Austria signs armistice amounting virtually to 
unconditional surrender. 500,000 prisoners had 
been taken. 

Yanks rout Germans on fourteen-mile front west 

(74) 



of Meiise and on 50 mile front above Verdun. 

NOVEMBER 4, 1917. 

"American Force" in trenches has firgjt clash 
with enemy, losing — three dead, eleven wounded, 
and eleven captured. 



NOVEMBER 4, 1918. 

Allied terms are sent to Germany. Americans 
enter Sedan. President Wilson tells Germany slie 
may get armistice terms by applying to Marshal 
Foeh in the field. Americans cross Meuse at 
Brieulles. 

NOVEMBER 5, 1916. 

Germans and Austrians proclaim new kingdom of 
Poland of territory captured from Russia. Re- 
joicing in Triest over end of Italy's war against 
Austria-Hungary. 



NOVEMBER 5, 1917. 

The first American killed resulted from a raid on 
American trenches by the Germans with a loss of 
five Americans and twelve captured. 



NOVEMBER 6, 1916. 

German submarine sinks British pa!=»sengei 
steamer "Arabia." 



(75) 



NOVEMBER 7, 1916. 

Submarine sinks American steamer Columbian. 

NOVEMBER 7, 1917. 

Col. S. M. House reaches Europe on diplomatic 
mission. 



NOVEMBER 7, 1918. 

Foch'3 decisive battle on west front on to Se- 
dan. American Rainbow division and part of the 
first division enters suburbs of Sedan. Germany's 
envoys enter allied lines by arrangement. Ger- 
many's financial position desperate. Since her 
eighth war loan national debt is« estimated to ap- 
proach 35 billions. False alarm of armistice while 
America's whistles blow. 

NOVEMBER 8, 1917. 

Petrograd seized; immediate peace sought. Ke- 
rensky overthrown. TJ. S. aims unchanged by 
Russia'? collapse. 



NOVEMBER 8, 1918. 

•Conference to end the war is on. Firing stops 
on French front as white flag passes'. 

NOVEMBER 9, 1917. 

Permanent inter-allied military commission cre- 
ated. 

(76) 



NOVEMBER 9, 1918. 

Kaiser Wilhelm, although defiant, abdicate? and 
Crown Prince renounces throne. Only final peace 
details remain. Armistice is coming. 



NOVEMBER 10, 1918. 

A wholesale revolution has wiped out the Ger- 
man Empire. Former Kaiser Wilhelm and ex- 
Crown Prince, Frederick Wilhelm flee to Holland. 

Allied victory at Sedan just before Armistice. 



NOVEMBER 11, 1918. 

Germany signs armis'ticc. War is over! ! ! 

The armistice submitted by the allies to Ger- 
many had been signed. Hostilities ceased at 5 
'clock American time. Ex-Emperor William II 
and the crown prince fled to Holland accompanied 
by German staff officers. 

The Germans smrrendered completely at eleven 
o'clock, a. m., foreign time American flag hoisted 
on Sedan front. 



At the present rate of exchange, 197,000,000,000 
mark? would be worth about $3,230,800',000 in 
American money. In normal times it would be 
about $49,400,000,000. 

America's most be-medaled hero is Corporal Ber- 
ger Loman, to whom has been awarded by General 
Pershing, personally, the Congressional Medal of 
Honor for having, single-handed, captured an en- 

(77) 



tire German battery of Light Field Pieces, and held 
it against all comerei. For this performance, 
France, also, gave him the Military Medal and the 
Croix de Guerre, and he has been cited for the Vic- 
toria Cross, the British Distinguished Service Med- 
al and the Belgian War Cross. 

For rushing out into No Man's Land in broad 
daylight and rescuing a wounded French aviator 
who was shot down by an enemy airman, Sergt. 
Ralph Hill of the 129 Infantry of Illinois return- 
ed home today on the Leviathan wearing the Con- 
gressional Medal of Honor; the Medaille Militaire 
and the Croix de Guerrer with the Palm. 

Sergt. HiU'si regiment was intrenched along the 
Menses river when the French flier came to grief, 
falling on the opposite side. Hill ran across a 
pontoon bridge under a hail of machine gun fire, 
picked the injured aviator up and returned to 
the American lines with him. Miraculously Hill 
escaped without a scratch. 

NOVEMBER 12, 1918. 

Prime Minister Lloyd George replied to Col. 
Edward M. House's message of congratulations on 
the cessation of hostilities: ^'Many thanks for 
your generous telegram. Nothing contributeed 
more to the victory than the prompt response of 
the President, to the appeal I made to him for 
America's help in those critical days." 

(78) 



Thousands' of guns fire final salvo. 

NOVEMBER 13, 1918. 

Dutch socialists debate forcing Queen to abdi- 
cate for sheltering ex-Kaiser, Unrest over food 
crisis from U. 8. 

NOVEMBER 13, 1919. 

Dr. Solf, German foreign 3eeretary requests 
President Wilson to intervene on fearful chaos as 
revolt spreads in Germany, especially on danger of 
starvation of millions. 

NOVEMBER 14, 1919. 

Total casualties of world war may exceed 31,- 
591,758 of which 7,909,768 were deaths in battle 
from wound? or disease. 



NOVEMBER 15, 1918. 

Ex-Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany 
interned at Swalmen, a town in the province of 
Limburg in Holland, afterwards fled to Wieringen, 
an isolated island of Holland. 



NOVEMBER 16, 1918. 

King Ludwig III of Bavaria flees to Rorschach, 
a town on the Swiss bank of Lake Constance in 
Switzerland. 

(79) 



NOVEMBER 17, 1918. 

Gen. Foch was the young officer of nearly fifty 
years who had witnessed Napoleon '3 humiliating 
surrender at Sedan. 

''Eevanche" became his watchword. Under 
Foch's training the French stood like a wall as 
the great war was fought, and now the dark days 
of Sedan are wiped out and France shines in vic- 
tory. 

No people is* wholly bad. Disease eventually 
runs it3 course. Health triumphs in time, and the 
day will come when a purged and regenerated 
German folk will give thanks to the powers of 
destiny for the defeat of that military machine 
which flattered only to deceive her and bring her 
to the edge of ruin. 

NOVEMBER 19, 1919. 

Eefusal of Peace Treaty ratification at 11 at 
night by U. S. Senate at Washington, D. C, both 
with and without ''reservation." 

To commemorate the signing of the peace treaty 
the American numismatic Society ha? issued a 
peace medal, being designed by Chester Beach one 
of the younger American sculptors. 

NOVEMBER 20^ 1917. 

American war mission in London urged to rush 

(80) 



troops to front. 

American women gave to Red Cross 300,000,000 
liours of work and produced more than 354,000,000 
articles valued at about $81,000,000 during th-^ 
eighteen months ending Jan. 1919. Eight million 
women volunteered their services within the thir- 
teen Eed Cross disrtricts. 

In rendering homage to Marshall Foch and Pc- 
tain we must remember the others; Haig, Pershing, 
Diaz, Gen. Wood, President Wilson, Allenby, who 
played such a vital part in the world war and the 
different generals, and last but not least the United 
States without whose aid no s»peedy victory was 
possible. 

NOVEMBER 22. 

The Germany of 1914 is dead. Woodrow Wilson 
killed it. France, England, Italy and Belgium went 
to war against an empire resting upon the divine 
right of kings to conquer the world. They made 
peace with a far different organization. Thanks to 
the vision of President Wilson. 

NOVEMBER 23, 1918. 

Italian 's I'l oniier Orlando in an address before 
tlio Chamber of deputies pays tribute to the allies 
j)articularly to America for assisting Italy in the 
hour of her greatest danger and says it has not a 

(81) 



counterpart in all history. 

NOVEMBER 24, 1916. 

German-Bulgarian* armicsj take Orsova and Turuu 
Severin Jrom Roumanians. 



NOVEMBER 24, 1917. 

U. S. navy department announces capture of 
first German submarine by American destroyer. 

NOVEMBER 25, 1916. 

Greek provisional government declares war on 
Germany and Bulgaria. 



NOVEMBER 25, 1918. 

Under supreme command of General Focli of all 
allied forces on the Western Front victory was 
wrested from defeat in four month?. 

Rev. Monsignor Arthur Stapleton Barnes, prelate 
of England, former captain in the British army, 
states that every one abroad is more than proud 
of the American boys. They have set a fine ex- 
ample of clean living, moral conduct and splendid 
fighting ability. 

Foolis'h religious narrowness and prejudice has 
been done away with and the Protestant, Catholic 
and Jew are going to come closer as a result of 
the world war. — BARNES. 

(82) 



NOVEMBER 28, 1916. 

Roumanian government abandons Bucharest and 
moves capital to Jassy, 
NOVEMBER 28, 1917. 

Bolslioviki get abi^olutc control of Russian as- 
sembly in Russian elections. 



Startling are the change? wrouglit by war. Ob- 
serve how quickly emperors and knights, stripped 
of the trappings of power, shrivel in the world's 
vision and appear as very common clay. 

NOVEMBER 30, 1917. 

Rainbow division reaches France. 



In June, 1918, Germany dreamed of exacting 
$45,000,000,000 indemnity from Allies, demanding 
French cities, British colonies and whole English 
fleet. 

When the boys in khaki and our Jaekies fought 
tlie decisive battles at the side of the Allies the 
war was won by American bravery, American 
money and American food. 

DECEMBER 2, 1917. 

I'll i tod States army engineers help British. 

DECEMBER 4, 1915. 

Ford ''peace party" sails for Europe. 

(83) 



DECEMBER 4, 1916. 

Entente people are lieartily sick, of war, with 
food a problem. 

DECEMBER 4, 1917. 

President Wilson asks congress to declare war 
on Austria-Hungary, calling for no peace until we 
win the war. 

DECEMBER 5, 1916. 

Premier Herbert Asquith of England resigns. 



116 days from the time the Kaiser stood at the 
Marne he was a fugitive. 

DECEMBER 6, 1917. 

Submarine sinks the ''Jacob Jones," first regular 
warship of American Navy. 

DECEMBER 7, 1916. 

David Lloyd George accepts British Premier 
ship. 
DECEMBER 7, 1917. 

Congress declares war on Austria-Hungary. 



DECEMBER 8, 1917. 

Jerusalem surrenders to Gen. Allenby's forces. 
The war deficiency of the U. S., which the tax- 

(84) 



payers of the country must pay, is 22,000,000,000. 
Ten billion besides were loaned to Allies. 

DECEMBER 9, 1919. 

Private John Joseph MacGoldriek answered the 
doorbell and received a government message which 
stated that he had been wounded. ''I got home a 
week ago and am glad I got ahead of that tele- 
gram. I was gassed in the Argonne while fighting 
with the 4th division. Was in bad shape in the 
hospital, but am all right now. It would have had 
my folks up in the air." 

America's most be-medaled hero is Sergeant Vic- 
tor Peterson, A. O., winner of the distinguished 
cross. 

Corporal Berger Lohman captured single-handed 
an entire German battery of light field pieces. Gen- 
oral Pershing rewarded him personally with the 
congressional medal of honor. France gave him 
he medal and croix de guerre, and British the dis- 
tinguished service medal and the Belgian war cross. 

No section of the Balkans ever presented a more 
depressing picture than Kavalla in Macedonia. 
Americans established soup kitchens and dispen- 
saries at finding the inhabitants dying by the dozen 
of famine, exposure and typhu3, they sent in doc- 

(85) 



tors, nurses and medical suplpies and gave out tens 
of thousands of American made garments. They 
distributed hundred of thousands of loaves of bread 
made of American flour. They established shel- 
ters for the homeless women and children. In their 
devotion to the task of rescuing the typhus strick- 
en population, two of their number lost their lives 
and three nurses contracted the dread disease. 



DECEMBER 15, 1915. 

Sir John Douglas Ilaig succeeds Sir John French 
as chief of English armies on West Front. 

DECEMBER 15, 1916. 

French at Verdun win two miles of front and 
capture 11,000. 

Up to June 1919, the Vocational Board had reg- 
istered 81,740 crippled men. Had contract with 
63,533 disabled soldiers and listed the injuries of 
52,367. 82,000 men are unfitted for former occupa- 
tion. 6,614 have been able to get papers that are 
necessary before the Federal Board can begin ser- 
vice. 75,000 were still waiting. The number of 
men in the American forces who were left blinded 
total 125. They receive a compensation of $100 a 
month in addition to $57.50 which they receive from 
the Government Insurance. 

(86) 



On the eve of battle in the Toul sector last June 
1918, the Ked Crosy reported that the dough-boys 
consumed 1,561,625 sandwiches and 461,114 dough- 
nuts. They seemed not greatly concerned over 
meeting the Boche. 



DECEMBER 19, 1916. 

l.lnyd George declines German peaceproposals. 



Uncle Sam had 2,000 cannon in Battle Sectors 
II France on Nov. 11, 1918. 



Wonderful was the change in England after the 
\ ictorious battle of Cantiguy June 26, 1918. 
American sioldiers were deemed as the best soldiers 
alive. 

*' Glory to God" was the shout one heard in 
London streets. There is hope!— and they did not 
liope in vain! 



After Cantigny came that long wonderful rec- 
ord of victories — Chateau Thierry- Bois Vesle, 
Fercn Tardenois, Belleau Wood, and others'; aH 
Europe marvelled at such a record achieved by 
almost untrained 3oldiers. It was their spirit 
tliat conquered. 

Eeported killed. After eighteen months service 
in France Gunnery Sergeant Max M 'Goldberg re- 
turned home to Atlanta, Ga. For act of heroism 

(87) 



he was awarded the French War Cross 



There has never been a time in the history of 
he Salvation Army where it had as many friends 
as now in America and over there. Asik the 
boys!!! 



DECEMBER 26, 1916. 

Germany proposes to President Wilson "an im- 
mediate meeting of delegates of belligerents." 



An official report announced that 755 German 
planes and 71 balloons had been destroyed during 
the war since America entered while the Ameri- 
can losses were 357 planes and 43 balloons. Only 
victories which have been absolutely confirmed 
were credited to American flyers. 



Too much war science was doubtless the undo- 
ing of the German staff, and the very lack of Mil- 
itary Knowledge was one of the chief factors in 
American Victories. 



DECEMBER 26, 1917. 

U. S. took over Control of all railroads. 



The war debt of all warring countrie? included 
U. S. have been tabulated by financial Authorities 
as $27,300,000,000,194,000,000,000 in four years of 
fighting. 

(88) 



America's huge war bill amounted in the last 
twelve months to about 18 billion of which only 
J million represent loans to Allies of the U. S. 
which will be repaid. 



There can be no doubt that the military inter- 
vention of the Americans shortened the war and 
put the seal upon the moral condemnation of Ger- 
many. The enormousi sum of $129,000,000,000 may 
be demanded from Germany in indemnities and 
war costs by the Allies. 



400,000 Soldiers and Sailors including officers 
and men have been placed in touch with positions 
by the U. S. employment service from the signing 
of the armistice to June ls»t, 1919. 



We require nothing of the peace which was to 
follow this great war beyond tranquility of mind 
with regard to future wars. A disinterested and 
unselfish peace without indemnities nor territory. 
PSALM CXXVIII-I. 

''Behold how good and how pleasant it is for 
l)rethren to dwell together in unity. Liberty and 
Union one and inseparable now and forever." — 
Daniel Webster. 



MAIN PROVISIONS OF PEACE TREATY. 

Alsace-Lorraine goes to France. 

(89) 



The Saar valley will be temporarily internation- 
alized. 

Danzig will be permanently internationalized. 

Germany renounces all territorial rights outsido 
Europe. 

Germany recognizes the independence of Poland 
nnd Czechoslovakia. 

The German army is reduced to 100,000 officers 
and men, and conscription within Germany iy abol- 
ished. 

The German navy is reduced to 24 warships 
and no submarines. 

Germany may have only 100 unanned seaplanes 
to search for mines off her coast. 

Germany will pay an indemnity, the amount 
of which isj not yet fixed, the initial payment to 
be 20,000,000,000 marks, about $5,000,000,000. 

Germany cedes a large part of her merchant 
fleet to the Allies. 

Germany agrees to the trial of the ex-Kaiser. 

The disposition of the siurrendered German. fleet, 
the German colonies and the German cables is left 
to future action. 



JULY 2, 1921. 

A special messenger from Washington had ar- 
rived bearing the peace resolution and routine doc- 

(90) 



unients from Congress for the President's signa- 
ture. 

THUMB-NAIL SKETCH OF WARREN G. HARD 
ING, 29TH PRESIDENT OF U. S. 

Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth presi- 
dent of the United States. 

Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, 
November 2, 1865. 

Student Ohio Central college, 1879-1882. 

Entered new&»paper business, Marion, Ohio, 1884 
and publisher Marion, Ohio, Star since that time. 

Married Florence Kling, Marion, 1891. 

Member Ohio state senate, 1899 to 1905. 

Lieutenant-governor Ohio, 1904 to 1906. 

Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, 1910 
(defeated). 

Election to United States Senate, November 3, 
1914. 

Baptist, home, Marion, Ohio. 



BIG DATES IN WILSON'S LIFE. 

Born — December 28, 185G. 
1873 — Entered Davidson college. 
1875 — Entered Princeton university. 
1879 — Graduated from Princeton with A. B. dc- 
•ee. 

1881— Graduated in law, U. of Va. 
1886 — Received Ph.D degree, Johns Hopkins. 

(91) 



June 24, 1885 — Married Ellen Louise Axson. 

1890 — Became profes-sor at Princeton. 
1902 — Became president of Princeton. 

January 17, 1911— Became governor of New Jer- 
sey. 

July 2, 1912 — Nominated Democratic candidate 
for president. 

March 4, 1913 — Became president. 

August 6, 1914 — Mrs. Wilson died. 

March, 1915 — Ordered mobilization on Mexican 
border. 

December 18, 1915 — Married Mrs. Edith Boiling 
Gait. 

March, 1916 — Ordered Pershing expedition into 
Mexico. 

June 15, 1916 — Renominated for president. 

February 3, 1917 — Dismissed German Ambassa- 
dor von Bernstorff. 

April 2, 1917— Addressed congress asking dec- 
laration of state of war. 

April 6, 1917 — Signed declaration of war. 

November 11, 1918 — Read armis^tice terms to 
congress. 

December 4, 1918 — Embarked for France and 
peace conference. 

February 24, 1919 — Arrived from France, speak- 
ing in Boston. 

March 5, 1919 — Re-embarked for Europe. 

June 28, 1919 — Signed Versailles treaty ending 

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war. 

June 29, 1919— Sailed for U. S. with treaty. 

July 10, 1919 — Submitted treaty to senate. 

September 4, 1919 — ^Started western tour speak- 
ng for treaty. 

September 26, 1919— Collapsed at Wichita, Kan. 

March 19, 1920— Senate finally rejected Ver- 
sailles treaty. 

December 10, 1920 — Eeceived ward of Nobel 
peace prize. 

March 4, 1921 — Retire? from presidency. 



HARDING POLICIES IN A NUTSHELL. 

Xo direction of old world policies. 

No permanent military alliance, political com- 
mitments of economic obligations which will sub- 
ject our decisions to foreign authority. 

Formulation of an association of nations confer- 
ence. 

Recommendations looking toward approximate 
dis'armament. 

Creation of machinery for mediation, concilia- 
tion and arbitration of international disputes. 

Clarification of international law. 

Creation of a world court. 

Resistance to assaults on visitations. 

Promotion of international trade. 

Reduction to normal expenditures. 

Administration efficiency. 

(93) 



Lightened tax burdens, siound commercial prac- 
tices and adequate credit facilities. 

Sympathetic concern for agricultural problems. 
Abolition of government experiments in business. 



By Frank A. Stetson. 
1921. 

Staff Correspondent International News Service. 

Raritan, N. J., July 2. — President Harding sign- 
ed the joint congressional resolution ending the 
state of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary 
at 4:10 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the parlor 
of the Frelinghuys'en mansion here. 

The signing of the history-making document 
took place in the presence of a distinguished com- 
pany, including Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen 
of New Jersey, Senator Frank Kellogg of Minne- 
sota, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, and Speak- 
er Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts'. 



PRESIDENT HARDING'S WORLD-ENTENTE. 

The President is constitutionally opposed to all 
alliances where America is concerned and will 
have no part of them. His idea is that we are 
ready to associate with all the nations in all alli- 
ance of friendship, good will and help to humanity. 

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"FAMILIAR WONDERS." 

I. 

Taiii't for long the world looks "new" — 

Seems another world to you; 

Airships thicken in the sky, — 

Hardly look up where they fly! 

Half a hundred prophets say: 

''Told you we'd be there some day!" 

Nothin' keeps the edge that's new: 

Old worlds never ''strange to you!" 

n. 

And it's good it's just that way — 
Every day a wonder-day; 
And so fast the wonder? fall, 
We just feel "at home" with all! 
Not a sky's "amazing bright" 
When you grow into the Light! 
While you praise old Yesterday, 
lIcrc'sTomorrow, with "Hooray!" 

—Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. 



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